And otto miller



(No Model.)

B & O. MILLER.

AWL FOR ATTAGHING BUTTONS.

. Patented Feb. '17, 1885.

ckmm

N. PETERS. Flmloblhugmpher, Wnshinglou, D. C. I

RUDOLPH MILLER, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, AND OTTO MILLER, on NEW YORK, Y.

AWL'FOR ATTACl-IINGBUTTONS.

@PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,491, dated February1'7, 1885.

Application filed July 30, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: (see Fig. 2) parallel with or in the sameplane Be it known that we, RUDOLPH MILLER, of as the length of thenotch, and this cutting- Orange, Essex county, New Jersey, and OTTO edgeis preferably made with a sharp curve, MILLER, of the city, county, andState of (see Fig. 3,) the center, 6, of the curve being 5 New York,have invented a new and useful Imremoved to that side of thelongitudinal axis 55 provement in Awls for Shoe-Buttons; and we of theawl farthest from the notch. The notch do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full D is placed so near to the end of the awl as andexact description thereof, reference being that when it engages thebutton of the eye had to the accompanying drawings, and to the (see Fig.8) the end of the awl may be turned [0 letters of reference markedthereon, making freely through the eye (see Fig. 4) for ready 60 apartof this specification. disengagement therefrom after it has been Theobject of our invention is to provide a drawn through the body of theshoe. The tool for drawing instead of pushing the eye body of the awlimmediately above the notch of a shoe-button through theshoe-leather,and is of the same diameter as below it, and the toovercome thereby the diffieulty and annoyupper outer edge of the notchis in aright line 65 ance ordinarily attendant upon the insertion withits lower outer edge, so that said edges of the 1311213011 preparatoryto fastening it in maynot catch in the aperture pierced thereby. theshoe by passing a retaining device through The body of the awl may beenlarged gradits eye, the tool being made not only to pierce ually indiameter from a point above the the holes in theshoe for the insertionof the notch to permitof an enlargement of the ap- 7o buttons, but alsoadapted for easily drawing era-ture by pushing the awl therein. the eyeof the button through the hole so \iVe are aware thatastilettohavingapointpierced in readiness to be secured by a meed endprovided with a T-shaped slot or eye tallic fastener. A with hookedportions overhanging the eye,

It consists of an awl notched upon one side, and constructed withflanges at its side so as 7 5 near the end thereof, to engage the eye ofa to cut a T-shaped opening in the material button, and sharpened at itsend below the through which it is passed, has been described notch toform a cutting and piercing blade, as and claimed in Letters Patent No.278,733; hereinafter more fully described. but our improvement differsessentially there- 0 In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is from, inthat instead of terminating in a long 8c an elevation of my improvedshoe-button awl; point the end of our awl is comparatively Fig. 2, aview of its end on an enlarged se .12, short and stubby, and nearly aswide in one looking full toward the opening of the notch; direction asthe body thereof, being flattened Fig. 3, an enlarged view of the end ofthe awl, and sharpened in the other direction to form 5 illustrating abutton drawn thereby through a rounded cutting-blade; and, instead ofhav- 8 the fabric; and Fig. 4, a similar View illusing a T-shaped eyeconsiderably removed trating the awl in position to be removed from thepoint and with overhanging hooked from the eye of the button. portionsand lateral flanges it is provided A represents the body of the awl; Bits out with a simple lateral notch at right angles to er end; 0 itshandle, and D a lateral notch the edge of the blade, and as close aspossi- 90 cut in the awl near to its extremity. The ble thereto, andwith a plain body without body of the awl is made more or less taperingflanges or other projections therefrom. toward its outer end. The notchD is cut in ()ur awl is adapted specially to the drawthe side thereof atabout a right angle to its ing of the eye of a shoe-button through thelength, and to a depth equal to the thickness body of the shoeindependent of any fastener 95 of the wire forming the eye of ashoe-button, orauxiliary device. E, the bottom of the notch beingsemicircular We claim as our inventionto correspond with the section ofthe wire. A shoe-button awl constructed with a flat-- The end of the awlis beveled off on either tened end terminating in a curved terminal sideto form aterminal cutting edge or blade cutting edge or blade, and withalateral notch 10c In testimony whereof we have signed our names to thisspecification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUDOLPH MILLER. OTTO MILLER.

Witnesses:

E. C. PERKINS, G. H. SPENCER.

